Pillow pal anyone?

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I've had one for about 10 years and
would be lost without it.
I though of ...

Pillow pal anyone?

I just though I would share this with you.
I've had one for about 10 years and
would be lost without it.
I though of sharing this after reading a post
about checking out noises at night.
If i hear a noise at night I just move my hand
to the side of the bed and my gun is there
hanging on it in a holster .
The holster I use is a cheap one a pouch on it for
an extra mag but instead of a mag I put my
Boker 6volt flashlight in it .
It is so close to me that if I woke up and found
someone standing at the foot of my bed he
would not know I had reached for it.
It can also be hidden under a dust ruffle.
Here is a link on it . Home of the Pillow Pal
PS. This is not a good thing to use if you have
children as it is well within their reach.

Unfortunately, it wouldn't work for me, as I have a Select Comfort Air mattress on a waterbed frame, not enough weight to keep it in place. So I have to keep mine in a drawer beside the bed, in easy reach.

"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." Ted Nugent

Hey ya'll have a lot of good ideas and it seems you have put a lot of thought in your sleeping scenario.

How about this thought added to your current setup?

Get some sort of bedside lamp that is directional (sort of like a reading lamp) so that it faces away from you as you would sleep. Get a remote controlled switch or other device and attach it to your bedhead, so you have easy access to the switch while you sleep. At your option you can easily turn on the lamp, wreck the "visitors" night vision and startle him to the point of a diversion. Secondly, you give yourself a chance to ID an overnight guest, spouse, or whoever that might have foolishly wandered in your room.

For that matter, get a remote controlled sensor and set it up near your bedroom door, anyone activating it will control your lamp.....wakens you, blinds them, gives you a quicker chance to get your weapon. Place it high enough so pets won't activate it.

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Hey ya'll have a lot of good ideas and it seems you have put a lot of thought in your sleeping scenario.

How about this thought added to your current setup?

Get some sort of bedside lamp that is directional (sort of like a reading lamp) so that it faces away from you as you would sleep. Get a remote controlled switch or other device and attach it to your bedhead, so you have easy access to the switch while you sleep. At your option you can easily turn on the lamp, wreck the "visitors" night vision and startle him to the point of a diversion. Secondly, you give yourself a chance to ID an overnight guest, spouse, or whoever that might have foolishly wandered in your room.

For that matter, get a remote controlled sensor and set it up near your bedroom door, anyone activating it will control your lamp.....wakens you, blinds them, gives you a quicker chance to get your weapon. Place it high enough so pets won't activate it.

Those are pretty good ideas,because when you
are waking up ,seconds count,the more time
you have to wake up and react the better.

My bedroom gun is UNDER my pillow. If you are a BG in my bedroom, I can move my hand without you even seeing me and I will shoot you from under the covers.

I can't image how dangerous that is...but to each his own.

I also don't suspect it happens like in the movies, I just do not see me waking up to a BG standing at the end of the bed. First off, I don't suspect he will get that far in the first place (alarm, dog), but if he did, I would suspect if he is there to do harm, and gets to the bedroom before I wake up, a gun taped to my hand would not be good enough.

I have a lockbox on my nightstand, usually open as there are no kids around, just the wife. But the BG first would have to get past the alarm system. Then past the dogs. Lastly, passed the sleeping cat. No way to get to the bedroom without running the gauntlet. I (hope) I would be ready, if necessary.

My bedroom gun is UNDER my pillow. If you are a BG in my bedroom, I can move my hand without you even seeing me and I will shoot you from under the covers.

For those that leave theirs on the nightstand or even in the nightstand drawer, consider that a quiet BG can get it and shoot you with your own gun before you even wake up.

Not likely. While we don't set the alarm while we're home (wife's decision, not mine), the alarm beeps loudly when a door or window is opened, and I'm a light sleeper- it always wakes me up. Oh and along with the XD45 in the drawer, there's a pistol grip shotgun on the floor beside the bed